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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

HelpAStudentOut

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Aug 8, 2024
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Anyone who applied to slaughters- how much pre firm contact did you have.

The presentation evening is all booked up for my uni and I’m worried I won’t have enough personal insights for my application.
I landed the Slaughters AC for their direct TC, which I have next week. In terms of firm contact pre application, I mentioned the legal cheek vac scheme, and a bright network careers event I went to where I met trainees/gradrec
 
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W12345

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Oct 30, 2023
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I landed the Slaughters AC for their direct TC, which I have next week. In terms of firm contact pre application, I mentioned the legal cheek vac scheme, and a bright network careers event I went to where I met trainees/gradrec
Hey, huge congratulations on getting to the AC! Please if you don’t mind sharing, when exactly did you apply? :)
 

LawyerUpPal

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Jan 9, 2023
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Congrats!! I'm still waiting to hear back after VI. Not sure how that went though, did you feel yours went well, as you said you were not expecting it? And how long did it take for you to hear back? Thanks!
Thanks. I thought mine didn't go well. I didn't get to complete my answer to the final question. My AC, in contrast, was great. Mine was just over a week I think.
 
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AveragePoster

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@bella98 Sorry to throw a spanner in the works here but CMS’s Instagram post (in caption) has said they’re not rolling. I also don’t know what to do whether I should prioritise them??
Oh, that is odd. I have just checked my correspondence from them - I submitted my London TC app on 30th Sept, the opening date, and received an email saying "Thank you for your online application. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete this and are delighted to confirm that we would like to progress you to the next stage of our application process, which is the Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test" on 14th Oct, this past Monday.
 

lawyersum

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Oh, that is odd. I have just checked my correspondence from them - I submitted my London TC app on 30th Sept, the opening date, and received an email saying "Thank you for your online application. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete this and are delighted to confirm that we would like to progress you to the next stage of our application process, which is the Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal Test" on 14th Oct, this past Monday.
I know it is quite odd, but maybe once you do the WG, they don't give out AC invites until after the deadline? I can't think of any other way 'non-rolling' would make sense.
 

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